RE: Microsoft's Currency Converter and the Emerald Sixpack

[Michele Newberry <fclmin@cns.ufl.edu>]

OCLC Worldcat shows that 161 libraries worldwide have their 
holdings on the record that says its part of Emerald Insight 
(ISSN: 0144-3585).

   -- Michele Newberry
      Florida Center for Library Automation


On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Hamaker, Chuck wrote:

> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:44:02 EST
> From: "Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>
> Reply-To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> To: Ted Bergstrom <tedb@econ.ucsb.edu>
> Subject: RE: Microsoft's Currency Converter and the Emerald Sixpack
>
> Ok, so that's about US $1,643 per issue of about 100 pages? Or 
> $16.43 per page? Heckuva price. I"d be interested in knowing if 
> any libraries reading this are print subscribers. I have access 
> to it as a "package" subscription to Emerald journals online.
>
> Given that it looks like its part of the package deal from 
> emerald perhaps they've in fact become a database 
> creator/provider more than a journal publisher? I.e. there may 
> be more database subscribers who get it than print subscribers 
> ever existed.
>
> I think there's a really interesting set of questions embedded 
> in such a transformation. The cost of duplication etc. in the 
> print environment probably sets some limits of how few 
> "subscribers" you have before a title is allowed to expire. 
> I.e. there's only so much loss a publisher could take on a 
> mature title before it would be spiked. How, in a database 
> driven production environment do publishers get signals that a 
> particular title isn't viable or isn't contributing enough to 
> be worth producing? Is there anything that would convince a 
> publisher absent print subscriptions as a market inducement to 
> kill a title other than lack of paper flow? How does a 
> "journal" die if its chief manifestation is in a database 
> package as part of a package sale?
>
> Chuck Hamaker
> Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
> Atkins Library
> University of North Carolina Charlotte
> Charlotte, NC 28223
> phone 704 687-2825
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Bergstrom [mailto:tedb@econ.ucsb.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:50 PM
> To: Hamaker, Chuck
> Cc: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Microsoft's Currency Converter and the Emerald Sixpack
>
> Thanks, Chuck, for pointing this out.  There are two things to 
> straighten out here.
>
> 1) Dr. Steuer's letter, which was written in Microsoft Word 
> quotes the price as of Journal of Economic Studies at 6,000 
> English pounds per year.  When it exported the letter to text, 
> MS Word thought that the English pound symbol was A3, thus the 
> translitterated expression read A36,000.  (I apologize for not 
> catching that.)
>
> 2)  The six copies that he refers to are presumably the 6 
> issues that constitute one year's subscription. According to 
> Ulrich's Periodical index, JES is published bimonthly:  The
>
> 2006 prices quoted by Ulrichs for JES are:
>
> EUR 9,884.29 subscription per year in Europe
> USD 9,859 subscription per year in North America
> AUD 12,489 subscription per year in Australasia
> GBP 6,817.54 subscription per year In Uk & Elsewhere
>
> In 2003, they published a little more than 600 pages per year in
> these 6 issues.  Curiously, I don't have access to a more recent
> copy of JES and so I don't know how many pages there were in
> 2005.
>
> Ted